howdull: (head scratch)
Sherlock Holmes ([personal profile] howdull) wrote in [community profile] snowblindmemes 2016-09-25 02:41 pm (UTC)

[Tourette Syndrome, named after Georges Gilles de la Tourette who died in 1904, common usage and recognition of the condition did not come until much later, perhaps the 1950s. This backs up his earlier observation of the usage of the word telephone, marking him as pre-modern technology. Telephones weren't common in households until well after their invention, and this man does not have the polished writing of the extremely wealthy or privileged.

Meaning...]


1930s.

[It's a guess. He would go anywhere from the mid twenties to the late forties.]

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